The Vet $$$$

[Orange Daddy]

I take our dog Hunter a golden lab I got a few years back from rescue deal.
Now Hunter is a outside dog comes in sometimes when it storms.
So Hunter has Heart Worms from a visit last year..
It will cost me $800 to treat and hope to fix it...
Not NO but hale no i not spending $800 on a shit eater..
Dr. said well then give him heart worm pills it might cure it and we did for 6 mos went today and he still has heart worms.. Doc said well keep giving the pills which is $10 a month..
Its not curing nothing but still giving it to him?.. He said come back next year and we will check again.. $40 they will check and tell me he still has heart worms...
That aint going to happen. We not checking nothing he got it he got it..

So on this trip today to check HWorms he has about 3 or 4 lumps you can feel..
Wife says lets get them checked.... CHECKED  you think Cancer? What if it is Cancer
we going to pay no telling to treat my chit eater for Cancer?
It cost me $100 to draw blood samples and check to see if cancer..
By Gawd woman if it is cancer I damm sure not putting him under radiation to cure it.
So why the hale pay $100 to check for Cancer?? 
Well it is a fatty build up NO CANCER that I wasted $100  to check.

Well I did all this Chit today and spent $200 on my dog who yea I love the dog fine he does good around here but I sure not going to do all this checking and spending again.

I put the law down today woman this aint happening again..

He getting his rabies shot once a year no more heart worm checking.
We keep giving the HW pills and its not curing  it so why give it... 

[TNCOWBOY]

That dog probably has AIDS, OD.

[404whore]

Doesn't Obamacare cover that?

[Redneck Dave]

I believe most dogs, like most people, are over medicated

[wolfgang]

A friend was telling me just yesterday about the dog his family had when he was a kid. An aunt lived with them and she called his dad nearly hysterical, saying the vet had found heart worms in Flash and it was going to take $600 to cure him (you know you have to allow for inflation, OD). His dad replied, "Well, I guess Flash is gonna die."

[Orange Daddy]

Oct 23, 2014 18:15:04 GMT -5 wolfgang said:

dad replied, "Well, I guess Flash is gonna die."

you can count on that, for sure, he will be paws up at my place..
I just have got no Rude Dog feed back. I know what he is going to say and call me names

[61sr]

Dog is worth it.

[relic]

I hear you, OD.

But - Each and every situation is unique.

This goes back a ways, but we had a young/middle-aged Blue Heeler - this might have been around 1995 or thereabouts.

She was maybe 5/6 yrs old.
Took her to UT: Rectal cancer.
Operable, but Expensive, for us anyway. ($700.00 +)

We were very emotionally close to her at the time, but still.

We went for it, and enjoyed another 9 - 10 years of beautiful friendship, companionship, comradery, and just general comfortable family good times.

Given the same situation today, I would make the same decision.

This time, however, it would not take all of the back & forth second guessing dollar oriented analysis that we went through then.

Just felt compelled to throw that into the mix.

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Even if they've had the heart worm treatment, they still need some time for the dead worms to get reabsorbed into their system. They have to be kept calm and in a crate for a while so that the dead worms don't break loose and end up somewhere that could kill them, like in their lungs. If the vet said so, maybe ought to keep giving the preventative medicine to keep them from growing worse.

The treatment is pretty much like poison - arsenic I think. It's not 100% certain that the dog wouldn't be harmed from the treatment to get rid of them.

[Rudedog]

Oct 23, 2014 19:26:52 GMT -5 61sr said:

Dog is worth it.

I agree. We had one with cancer and treated her.

She had a few more good years.

[relic]

Oct 23, 2014 20:17:05 GMT -5 Rudedog said:

Oct 23, 2014 19:26:52 GMT -5 61sr said:

Dog is worth it.

I agree. We had one with cancer and treated her.

She had a few more good years.

That's what I was sayin.

Depends on how special the relationship/bond is.

For us it was way worth it.

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Mine was treated for heart worms ten years ago. She's as wild as can be today... you'd think she's a puppy.

[relic]

Oct 23, 2014 20:28:31 GMT -5 Thunder Good-Oil said:

Mine was treated for heart worms ten years ago. She's as wild as can be today... you'd think she's a puppy.

There ya go.

[Magnum]

I took one to the vet, when he had a hurt leg. They did surgery, and it cost me $600.

I felt good about it until the doctor said, "He probably would have healed on his own".

The vet told me that AFTER, he did the surgery.

I am leery of paying that kind of money on a pet again.

I don't mean I wouldn't get them help if they need it. I just mean I will wait a day or so before taking them next time.

Had another one, after I was married, and he had a hurt leg, same way. Son of a bitch healed just fine and lived for 11 years.